Will gladly give you a hamburger for a ride along at Willow Springs FASTIVUS track day

I will be close to the area as my son has a baseball tournament Labor weekend, but can skate out for a ride if possible. If not no biggie, I may came out and loiter for a bitand check out some MKV R32 track set-ups.

Will gladly give you a hamburger for a ride along at Willow Springs FASTIVUS track day

I will be close to the area as my son has a baseball tournament Labor weekend, but can skate out for a ride if possible. If not no biggie, I may came out and loiter for a bitand check out some MKV R32 track set-ups.

Rigi Cola.

"The VR6 was an orchestra of well-tuned cylindrical delights." - jalopnik.com

Scorpion downpipes should be in later today. I did some searching over the weekend and I ended up finding some nice cats, Mil.Spec Race Cats 100 cell, seems that a lot of the high hp turbo guys are running them. I was considering trying to use the OEM cats, but I want to squeeze as much power as I can and have the option to revert back to the OEM downpipe if needed.

Rigi Cola.

"The VR6 was an orchestra of well-tuned cylindrical delights." - jalopnik.com

Would they really get under the car and inspect the physical cat if the car passes emissions tests?

I can't wait for the dyno results , really wanna see the downpipe + HFC difference over OEM.

Yes they will inspect the exhaust system from engine to tail. The inspection usually happens with the car on a drive rack. It's a crazy system here these days, for public safety your car fails emissions, but heaven forbid Caltrans picks up any Road Warrior debris on the freeway, bath tub in lane 1 safe, but HFC bad.

In LA sometimes they have sniffers setup when you're getting on the freeway, I used to have to turn my car off and coast my MKII through the sniffer getting on the freeway, hahaha...

Originally Posted by Uncle Wiggley

Yes they will inspect the exhaust system from engine to tail. The inspection usually happens with the car on a drive rack. It's a crazy system here these days, for public safety your car fails emissions, but heaven forbid Caltrans picks up any Road Warrior debris on the freeway, bath tub in lane 1 safe, but HFC bad.

Rigi Cola.

"The VR6 was an orchestra of well-tuned cylindrical delights." - jalopnik.com

I haven't had to get smog-tested yet, but most of the smog-only test shops in LBC don't seem to be *that* thorough. When testing my previous car, they never looked underneath it nor in the engine bay; they simply plugged their cable into the OBD port, shoved the probe into the exhaust pipe, and that was pretty much it.

Also, not sure about other folks' experiences, but since our car looks fairly 'plain', I doubt we're as likely to get pulled over for random checkups as say, some kid in a Evo or STI with a giant wing in the back .

Never had that happen to my car. . .I have only been smogged once so far. I have also heard, though, that they are doing away with the tailpipe sniffers. I'll have to research that to confirm it.

Originally Posted by Uncle Wiggley

Yes they will inspect the exhaust system from engine to tail. The inspection usually happens with the car on a drive rack. It's a crazy system here these days, for public safety your car fails emissions, but heaven forbid Caltrans picks up any Road Warrior debris on the freeway, bath tub in lane 1 safe, but HFC bad.

Set to begin January 01, 2013; Model year 2000 and newer vehicles will no longer require the tailpipe emissions test portion of the smog check process. AB 2289 will require late model vehicles be administered the smog check's visual and functional tests only."